ACT: An Automatic Centroid Tracking tool for analyzing vocal tract actions in real-time magnetic resonance imaging
1Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA miranoh@usc.edu, yoonjeonglee@ucla.edu.
Abstract:
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) speech production data have expanded the understanding of vocal tract actions. This letter presents an Automatic Centroid Tracking tool, ACT, which obtains both spatial and temporal information characterizing multi-directional articulatory movement. ACT auto-segments an articulatory object composed of connected pixels in a real-time MRI video, by finding its intensity centroids over time and returns kinematic profiles including direction and magnitude information of the object. This letter discusses the utility of ACT, which outperforms other similar object tracking techniques, by demonstrating its successful online tracking of vertical larynx movement. ACT can be deployed generally for dynamic image processing and analysis.
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